This letter is to whom ever reads it,
I want to know why time and time again my civil rights are violated
and I am told I have to obey the law. The law is supposed to treat all
equally, show no favor and protects everyone. But someone forgot to tell
the law that I am suppose to be treated the same as everyone else.
This letter servers as a public notice, because the inadequate
police report doesn't say anything about these events.
An example, of which there are many; on July 2, 2005 at around
11:22 at night a car came crashing into my yard, traveling at a high rate
of speed. The car then crashed into my fence, deck and trailer; which was
in storage beside my house. I was in the living room looking out the side
window when the car crashed. Everything on the deck went flying, including
my BBQ grill; with propane bottle attached, which came within a foot of
coming in the window. Needless to say, good thing my wife and I didn't
go outside 5 minutes sooner like we had planned.
I told my wife who was washing dishes at this time in the kitchen
to stay put, I then ran out to the trailer to see if the car was imbedded
in the trailer and to get my pistol which I keep in the closet of the trailer.
I then come back into my house and go out the front door to find out what
was going on. I see a woman bleeding and glassy eyed, about 30ish, blonde
hair, with 2 tattoos on her back staggering around the front yard.
She is pleading with me to not call the police and saying she's
sorry her boyfriend made her do it. She then tries to get back in the car
and leave. She backs the car up 3 feet before I step into the door of the
car and order her out of the vehicle and order her to the ground at gun
point and tell her not to move.
About now an African-American male about 30's bleeding and looking
like he had been drug down the road staggers up. The female and he exchange
a verbal cussing match, and the female is distracted by a young white male
about 15 who has come running up the street. She yells at him to get back
into the car. Then a black or dark blue jeep Cherokee type vehicle pulls
up to the stop sign on Bartee Ave. The female runs for the jeep, as an
African-American male leans out the passenger side window with a rifle.
At this moment I have my 9 mm pistol trained on the male with the rifle.
I don't have time to get a license plate number because I'm watching the
man with the rifle.
I have a clean shot at his chest. My sights are on him, he fires
the first round into the air. I slowly squeeze the trigger back locking
it ready. He fires another round lower. Then sees me with a pistol just
standing there wondering if I have a legal right to shoot him.
He yells at the driver to get away "the guys got a gun", they
speed off. The whole time I have him in my sights. I then turn my attention
to the African-American male still in my yard. From what he told me he
was car jacked by a hooker he picked up. And he looked like he had been
drug down the street for a ways. I went inside to call 911 again and got
disconnected. I then reloaded my 9 mm with my 35 round clip in case the
people came back, as they sometimes do, plus I was getting outnumbered.
10-15 minutes later after the first call to 911 the first officer arrived.
I was told 3 minutes and that there was only one call to 911 but we won't
argue.
He immediately tells me to disarm. In the heat of the crisis
I didn't put my piece away; I was afraid the people would come back. I
set my 9 mm down and showed the officer my permit to carry and then left
to take it inside.
The next few officers that arrive are in bullet proof vests
and tactical gear. And I think the SWAT team even showed up. These officers
are the ones I had problems with. One of the officers asks me "why did
you let them get away?" I told him "I'm not allowed to use lethal force
to protect my property." Another officer is standing by me when a vehicle
like the one that sped away conies back down the road.
The vehicle stops and backs up Chuckatuck onto Green Acres and
they fire a shot in the air and drive off. I look at the police officer
and say "that looks like the vehicle", he says "where?" I say "the one
that is backing up." He says "where?" I say "useless."
I give all my information to the first police officer at my house
and I get a copy of the report back from that night and there is one sentence
about what happened that night and it doesn't even tell anything that went
on. The sentence is and I quote "An unknown female drove the owner's vehicle
into the fence of 101 Chuckatuck Ave." See local case number 050702-1083.
I have attached a copy of the police paperwork. Also attached is a map
of what I draw up of that night. and photos.
I am told to pretty much next time anything happens in my front
yard to go hide and call 911 and hope the people go away, and then give
a detailed report of what happened.
I took an oath to defend this country from invaders and terrorists
both domestic and foreign when I joined the army. I am now told to be a
good citizen and obey the law that almost got me killed. I am told I shouldn't
teach my son hatred, to obey the law. Not to worry the terrorists can't
harm you in your own house.
Well I have something to say about that. They can do what ever
they want in your house because the law gives them more rights then you
in your own house. America is at war the news says every night, well war
came to my house and my hands were tied. Next time I don't know if I can
obey a law that tells me I can only return fire if my life is in danger.
If I have to go into my front yard with my pistol in my hand my life is
in danger. If I am fired upon again I shouldn't have to wonder if my life
is in danger, if there is a gun pointed in my direction firing I will return
fire. I don't go into my front yard to target practice with my pistol,
it's illegal to fire a pistol or rifle in your front yard in the city,
but if you're in a car committing a crime it's okay...
I have other instance where I have had to shut up and sit there
and take the abuse. This is not the first time someone has come into my
yard with a car; Almost running my son over. This is not the first time
I have had someone fire a weapon at me in my own yard. This is not the
first time I have called 911 because there was a crime committed and been
treated like dirt. I called 911 to report that my neighbors house was being
broke into. An hour and a half later a policeman comes up and asks where
the robber was. Um. I told him the guy ran away when I told the guy I had
a gun.
I've called animal control on a vicious dog that was running
lose and trying to bite everyone. The dog on two occasions tried to bite
my son and me in my own back yard. And I was told I'm not allowed to shoot
a vicious animal. They let it run lose for 2 weeks before they decided
to catch it, After I threatened them with a lawsuit for not doing their
job.
The Mexicans fire off firecrackers nightly some times for hours
no police will do anything about it. My next door neighbor lights one fountain
off for the fourth of July and the police come and tell her their going
to fine her it's illegal to have fireworks. And as far as Mexicans, how
many of them can legally live in a house? There are three two bedroom house
in our block with 15 + Mexicans in each house. And why are they allowed
to play their music as loud as they want at all hours of the night and
no police will do anything about it but we have a Halloween party once
a year and they police show up every year to tell us to turn it down.
I want to know where does this all end. I am being screwed by
the insurance company on the matter on the 2nd and I am fed up with it.
I am fed up with the inequality that I have been getting because I am Native
American. I am not American Indian I am a white Native born American. I
am not a Caucasian because I was not born in Caucasia or the caucus mountains
in Russia. I was born in Annapolis, MD. I am a native born American. I
have to prove to the DMV that I was born and raised in America which I
refuse to do. They have treated me with equally crap. They saw fit to suspend
my license with out telling me and I drove for a year on it suspended.
I then surrender my license after I find out from my insurance company
when they dropped me. And a year after I surrender my license they suspend
it again and tell me I owe them $500.00 in fines. I ask what for, I gave
back my license. They demand I pay them and prove I'm a U.S. citizen.
I tell them I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon which
I had to prove I was a U.S. citizen to get. They tell me it's not proof.
I'm tired of proving I live here I served in the army and have an honorable
discharge. I have a condition that has stopped me from working and has
disabled me for life. I'm fighting to get SSI, because my workman's compensation
settlement; which was to take care of me for life runs out in 2007, I got
screwed again.
I'm fed up with it. If I am treated like a criminal one more
time in my own home I think I'll be a criminal next time. I am tired of
doing the right thing and getting spit on in my own home. My son is afraid
the terrorists are going to walk right up and kill him in his own yard.
And he's right they will. So how am I to calm his fears when an officer
of the law tells him he just has to live by a law that will get you killed?
I want to know what to do? I am tired and fed up with society
as it is. And I'm not the only one. I would really like an answer. If I
were an African-American male this would be all over the news another African-American
male being mistreated. Well sorry I'm that other minority the Native American
White male and I demand my rights. Equal and fair, no more no less.
What am I to tell my child? He asks me every night if the "bad
guys are going to kill mommy and daddy while he's asleep?" or if daddy
is going to be alive to give him a hug in the morning? What am I to tell
him, it can't happen here, it already has and I'm not allowed to protect
him? 9/11 happened, London happened, My Street happened and we are still
saying it can't happen again. Well wake up it is happening all around us,
what are we to do? I leave it at that.
I have spoken with the Chief of Police Rodney Monroe and told
him I was going to stop calling the police, they seem to do nothing to
help me so why bother. I also told him that the next time something happened
and the city did nothing I was going to go off and I don't care about the
outcome. If I have to go out with my weapon drawn, I feel my life is in
danger. I was trained to use a weapon in the army have an expert shot 36/38
out of 40 shots, but am told I can't hit a target 35-50 feet away. The
day that happens you can rest assured I will personally turn in my weapons,
before I moved to New Jersey I turned in my 380 and my tec-9 to the gun
shop I bought them from. Southern gun world on midlothian. But i'm irresponsible....
Glen Sutphin
A fed up White Native American...
101 Chuckatuck Ave.
Richmond, VA. 23224
